Nov. I, igo2.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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It has been the rule at most lumber camps for nearly 
every man to have a rifle, and most of them hunt Sun- 
days; e&ch, daimlng. .tinder tile law, his right to two 
deei- in a season. These deer ate used at the camps at 
lliore or less of a profit to the tfaptors. 
The celebrated Indianapolis party about vyhoni so 
much has been said in Mame game law discussions, has 
left Jacksoii. taking 21 deef. Five were used in camp 
as food, and one Was spoiled by warrii weather. This 
is a mtich smaller number than represented in the ar- 
guments for a license law las't year, when speakers' would 
liave iis believe that the patty killed two or three hun- 
dred; a gross exaggeration. 
Vermont hunters are getting sbtne deer this season. 
Mn E. C. Stevens and Geo. H. Childs, of Boston, are 
out for a hunt of several days in Salisbury, in the vicin- 
ity of Lake Dunmore. They brought otlt two handsome 
bueks, of which they are very proud. 
Shore-bird shooting has been disappointing at Chat- 
ham. The best bag of the season is credited to Charles 
Woodman, getting 62 large birds in One day. Although 
the duek-shooting season has opened there, but few 
black ducks have been taken, Quail shooting albtig the 
Cape is good, and Boston gunners go down most every 
day. Small Point, off Saguin, and near the mouth _ of 
the Kennebec River, is a celebrated place for bird 
shooting, It is controlled by a club. A party of owners 
and invited guests returned from shooting there last 
week. In the party were ex-Mayor James Gould, of 
Chelsea; Freeman Low, Thurber Adams. Grant Adams, 
E. N. Cook, and Joseph Mitchell. They found only fair 
shooting, although the Point is exceedingly favorable; 
jutting out into the sea, so that flights are easily caught 
in range. Their biggest day was 24 coot. Black duck 
were also obtained in considerable ntunbers. Partridge 
and woodcock shooting was fair on shore. Mr. Free- 
man Low is 79 years old, a long-time member of the 
club. Was every morning at the blinds in season, and 
had fair success in shooting, though his hand is scarcely 
as steady as years ago. SrEciAL. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST, 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 23. — Our backward spring and wet 
summer have turned off into a very beautiful fall, and 
during the past week the weather has been as lovely 
for outdoor purposes as the heart of man could desire. 
We have had moonlight nights and light warm rains, 
conditions perfect for the last flight of jacksnipc from 
the north. A few jacksnipe have been n ticed around the 
Goose Island preserve along the Kankakee River in 
Illinois for the past ten days, and the country along the 
Fox River up toward Fox Lake ha a also reported a 
small flight; while from Wisconsin po'nts such as Kosh- 
konong. Horxon. Winneconne, etc., the snipe have been 
in fcr a couple of weeks in fairly good numliers, though 
only waiting for a cold storm before dropping down to 
the wintering grounds of the south. 
Mr, C. C. Hess, of this city, goes to Goose Lake Club 
preserve to-day for a try at ducks and snipe. He says 
tl'at quite a number of diicks have been reported for 
the last four days around the preserve grounds. 
Mr. O. von Lengerke and his friend, Mr. Oscar 
Kausche, leave this afternoon for a little sn'pe hunt in 
upper Illinois on the Fox River. 
Mr. Eddie Bingham reports that he killed a couple of 
hundred ducks on Lake Koshkonong on his trip to the 
o'd homestead about two weeks ago. Most of these birds 
were small, deep-water ducks, and the smaller m.arsh 
ducks, but the big deep-water ducks were coming in at 
the time he left, and have since then appeared in good 
numbers. 
Canvasback ducks are reported this week in some num- 
bers on Fox Lake, Wis., also on Poygan Lake, with red- 
heads and bluebills in even greater quantities. 
Dr. H. C. Buechner, of Horicon Club, Wis., starts 
from Chicago to-day for a try on the old-time Horicon 
marsh, which he thinks from all reports will be good for 
the next few days. 
Reports from Lake Senachwine. Swan Lake, and the 
lower Illinois countr3\ say that the fl ght \\hich was in 
there the first of the present week has within the last 
three days disappeared, and the club pushers think that 
the birds have gone on south. The weather remains 
bright, fair and warm all over that part of the State. 
At Tolleston Club the customarj^ abimdance of ducks 
prevails under the system of feeding and nursing which 
has so long obtained in those privileged waters. 
The Northwe&t. 
The northern fl'ght has been in over North Dakota and 
Minnesota for some days, and the next ten days ought 
to see pretty nearly the cream of it. South Dakota is not 
so good as North Dakota or Minnesota this year. The 
latter State can offer better duck shooting now than it 
could fifteen years ago, and North Dakota st.ll continues 
with an enormous supph^ of wildfowl which,' by every 
reason in the world, ought before this to ha\ e been ex- 
hausted. 
The Saginaw Crowd had good luck on their trip to 
Dakota this month, the date of their start having been 
m.entioned earlier. They went in at Dawson and found 
it as usual overrun with hunters, although there was lots 
of water this year and a consequent abundance of ducks. 
They met fair warm weather, Indian summer, which, of 
course, was not ideal for ducking purposes, though very 
pleasant for the purposes of a general good time. Mr. W. 
B. Mershon and Mr, George Morlej^ made a side trip for 
a couple of days and located a new lake, of which they 
think pretty well. The party may visit this new lake 
next year. A good many sharp-tailed grouse and prairie 
chickens seem to have appeared around Dawson this fall, 
and my informant states that he is sure there are some 
cross-bred birds between these two species of prairie 
grouse. The car party had no dogs along, but a partj' 
could usually take a team and pick up a dozen or two 
birds any day by just driving along and scaring them up. 
These Dawson lakes furnish some good food for deep- 
water duck, such as the canvasback, and this perhaps 
accounts for the fact that there were more canvasbacks 
than marsh ducks in the Dawson country ten days ago. 
Not very many mallards were seen, though there were 
quantities of teal and spoonbills. The Saginaw party were 
unlucky in their goose hunting this year, and did not 
kill a single goose, which is the first time that they have 
failed to do so. This was their twentieth annual trip, and 
all of the gentlemen are willing to place it on the record 
of the successes hitherto unbroken. They state that there 
is very little grain being raised around Dawson now. and 
the country is going into stock raising. This will not 
help the goose shooting, but will keep the country wdd 
and unbroken, which w'ill work beneficially in regard to 
the groU.se and ducks in all likelihood. 
, Dr, W. L, Baum, of this city, returned last week from 
a successful trip to Stump Lake, N. D. Fie reports that 
he and a party killed 187 canvasbacks beside other ducks. 
He is reported to have said that he and two other guns 
killed ninety-six canvasbacks in one day. He is reported 
also to have offered ducks for the table of some of his 
friends at the Union Restaurant, of this city. Of course 
he did not bring these ducks from North Dakota, for the 
law of that State prohibits taking birds out of the State. 
Illinois Quail. 
We do not talk of Indiana quail shooting now ,but of 
Illinois cjuail shooting, since the Indiana license law has 
placed that State in the category of things not men- 
tioned in polite society. In the lower part of Illinois the 
quail crop is undeniably less than it has been at any time 
for the last three or four years. - It will not be a big 
quail year, and shooters will have to work more than 
heretofore. Yet there will be quail enough for good 
sport, enough to quite open the eyes of any shooter from 
the iEast who is not accustomed to putting up a dozen or 
twenty bevies of quail in a day's tramp. 
'W^estern ilVIen and Eastern Big Game. 
I has'e already mentioned at different times the grow- 
ing tendency of sportsmen of the Middle West to turn 
eastward for their big-gaine hunting, rather than toward 
the West. Mention was made of the success of Mr. M. 
T. De Pauw, of New Albany, Ind., on his moose hunt 
on the Miramichi in New Brunswick this fall. Mr. Robert 
Allen, of Fredericton, N. B., writes me that this head 
is undoubtedly one of the largest ever seen at Fredericton. 
Mr. Flewelling. of the Crown Lands Office, measured this 
head and reports the antlers' spread as 62j4 inches. The 
extreme point of the right hand antler had been broken 
off, otherwise the head would have gone at least 64^ 
inches. The left antler mea.sures 41 mches in the web, 
carries 21 points, and has a blade 18 inches wide. Mr. 
De Pauw was in for a month with Uncle Henry Braith- 
waite. and it hardly need be stated that he came out a 
big-bore convert. It requii'ed two shots of a .577 rifle to 
bring this big moose to his knees. The animal meas- 
ured 7 feet 4 inches from foot to top of shoulder. The 
head will be mounted in New York. Mr. De Pauw also 
got a handsome caribou to his own gun, and he was the 
fortunate recipient of a very valuable present from Uncle 
Henry, a mammoth pair of interlocked caribou horns 
which the -latter found on the Graham Plains last spring. 
One of these caribou antlers is the largest ever taken out 
of New Brunswick and would compare favorablj' w'ith the 
best Alaska specimens. The antlers are rib-shaped, and 
have no less than fortj'-seven prongs and points, some of 
them over a foot in length. Uncle Henry says the car- 
casses had been partly eaten up by bears when he foimd 
them, but it was plain that the smaller horns had be- 
longed to the larger animal, and this animal had evidently 
taken the aggressive, as its horns were fast locked in those 
of the other. Braithwaite was offered $100 for the pair 
of antlers, but preferred to give them away for nothing, 
w hich is very much like Uncle Henry. 
Messrs. Mason Benner and B. H. Mast, of Dayton, O., 
are two other Western hunters to try New Brunswick. 
They were in at Clearwater with B. Norrad. Each se- 
cured a fine moose. Mr. Benner's head measuring 57 
inches in spread. They go from Fredericton to Brown- 
ville. Me., to have a little deer hunting. I fancy they 
will not find it hardly so safe deer hunting as it was 
moose hunting in New Brunswick. 
Among others who have been lucky in New Bruns- 
wick, are Mr. F. W. Tolles, of Naugatuck, Conn., who 
hunted on Rocky Brook with Daniel Munn as guide, and 
got a good moose. This head measured 60^ inches, the 
ai, tiers being better matched than those of the De Pauw 
head. 
George and Coleman Carnegie, nephews of Andrew 
Carnegie, are still out on the Taxis River, with Billy 
Grififin for guide. A Philadelphia gentleman whose name 
is unknown went up the Nashwaak with Tom Pringle last 
week in search of moose. 
Dr. D. W. Green, of Dayton, O., was also in with B. 
Norrad, and was lucky enough to kill his moose and 
caribou again, repeating his feat of last season. Dr. 
Green made a good impression in New Brunswick, and 
they are anxious to have him come back for his third 
trip. 
On the whole, the New Brunswick season has been a 
record breaker. There has been a big influx of American 
sportsmen, according to iMr. Allen, of the Fredericton 
Tourist Association, and their success has been phe- 
nomenal. Over forty moose heads had come into Fred- 
ericton at the date of Oct. 17, and this represented only 
the heads from the Southwest Miramichi district. All the 
Tobique and northern heads go out over the Canadian 
Pacific without coming through Fredericton. This latter 
is Adam Moore's territory. The latter thoroughbred 
came out Sept. 30 by way of Bathurst with the iMessrs. 
Foote, each of them having a fine moose. Adam returned 
at once with three Hartford graduates, one of them a 
Chicago man whose name I do not get at this writing. 
So much, then, for Forest and Stream's principle of 
protection, good laws and good enforcement. iNew Bruns- 
wick is surely old enough and much hunted enough. 
When you see Chicago men and Ohio men starting to 
New Brunswick for a big-game hunt, you may be sure 
there is a mighty good reason for that. The reason is 
that they are practically sure of getting wdiat they go 
after. The reason that they may be thus certain exists in 
the fact that the game of New Brunswick is protected in 
fact, and not merely in name, as is the case in the United 
States. E. Hough. 
]^AKT>osp ^vippiNG, Chicago, JIU 
In a Canyon. 
One day while crossing the Rocky Mountains in the 
spring of 1872, in company with our guide and a Navajo 
Indian, after supper, which we had rather earlier than 
usual, I stepped to one side to view a large cafion or gulch 
which was on our right. While peering down in the 
gloom I saw two strange objects moving about in the 
bottom of the cafion. After my eyes became accustomed 
to the semi-darkness in the gulch, I made out the strange 
beings to be a man and woman perfectly nude. The bodies 
seemed to be covered- with hair, and by their actions I 
niade out that they were in quest of frogs and bugs for 
food, as by carefully watching I saw the female put some 
wriggling thing into her mouth, which I supposed to be 
either a lizard or frog. They did not know that they were 
being watched. I made a slight noise, which attracted 
their attention. They both suddenly looked up at me, 
gazed for a second in startled surprise, then disappeared 
like lightning. 
Relating what I had seen to my companion, the guide, 
who is an old man and had followed the occupation of 
guide for several years, proceeded to tell us a tale about 
these creatures, the sum and substance of which is about 
this: Ten or twelve years before a party of emigrants 
had attempted to cross the mountains at this particular 
place. The weather being severely cold, it was supposed 
that the whole party perished, all but a man and woman, 
who survived, but so great was their sufferings that they 
became mentally -deranged, and have wandered about the 
ni.ountains ever since like the rest of the wild beasts by 
which they are surrounded. Some time back a party of 
gentlemen, with the assistance of Indians, tried to capture 
them, but all in vain, as they hid in some of the many 
caves which abound in this part of the mountains, and the 
search was useless. 
I had a greater curiosity to visit the part of the gulcH 
in which I had seen these wild people, and after travel- 
ing some distance down the mountains, I discovered a 
place b}' which I could descend to the bottom. The rest 
of the party decided to wait until I could explore the gulch 
to my satisfaction, but none of them seemed to care to 
accompany me. After traveling up the gulch for some 
distance and turning a sudden bend, I saw both these 
poor creatures not fifty yards distant. I had a good op- 
portunity to observe their actions. The man was 
stretched full length upon a rock; his body, like that of 
the female, seemed to be grown over with hair; his fac® 
was hideous and repulsive in the extreme and baffles de- 
scription. The woman w^as amusing herself by digging in 
the ground with a small stick as she sat cross-legged upon 
the ground. Her hair was exceedingly long and black, 
and her face looked as though it had never come in con- 
tact with soap and water. After looking at them until I 
was satisfied, the question suggested itself to me, should I 
quietl}'^ withdraw and not disturb them, or let myself be 
seen. I stepped from behind the rock which had con- 
cealed me, intO' full view. No sooner did they see me 
than the woman gave a piercing scream, which echoed 
down the gulch, and springing to her feet, with her long 
hair streaming in the wind, they disappeared in the mouth 
of a caA^e. J. W. Drane. 
New Yotk State Law vs. Game. 
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I note what you and others have to saj' as to the dis- 
appearance of the woodcock, and I am greatly interested, 
not only in the woodcock, but the quail and the partridge. 
Why do yott not stand to your Plank, viz., of closing the 
market to them, at least for a period of years? 
Many with whom I have discussed this subject believe 
that the closing of the market, and that what birds are 
left will do the rest. Close it for the ducks and snipe, and 
we will have practically no spring shooting. 
We who shoot for the recreation know that we do not 
deplete the supply to any appreciable extent. I believe 
I know pretty nearly the scores of all those in this city 
who shoot for the sport; and I also have quite definite 
information concerning those who shoot for the dollars 
and cents they get for their birds, and the scores of 
these persons will very much more than equal the entire 
lot taken by the former class. 
Those of us who have votes should see to it at once 
that our respective Senators and Assemblymen know our 
wishes ; and we should insist upon a pledge from each 
as to their support of legislation on the lines above 
indicated. 
Governor Odell, I regret to say, recommended and had 
passed very injurious legislation; I would rather refer 
to his bill for bonding of game during the close season. 
Especially when you learn that but seven or eight concerns 
in the entire State gave bonds. Are the others not selling 
illegallj^ as in former 3'ears? The Governor's veto of the 
Williams bill, to prohibit the sale of grouse, was and is 
indefensible. 
For three years the State of Massachusetts has had a 
non-sale law as to woodcock, quail and grouse, and 
residents of that State declare it a great success; and 
that these game birds have increased to a surprising ex- 
tent, and the Game Commissioners of that State also 
report the same very pleasing results, and why should not 
the great State of iNew York try it? ; 
Fellow sportsmen, see that your candidates for Senate 
and Assembly are right on this very important subject 
to us. It wrongs no one. . J. R. F. 
Where Bears are Dangferotis. 
The Altoona (Pa.) Times records: "Howard Tobias, 
a former clerk in the freight depot at Hollidaysburg, who 
is now engaged in the grocery business at Everett, Pa., 
met with a serious accident last week. While returning 
from delivering goods at Tatesville, the horse he was 
driving frightened at a bear and ran off. The wagon 
struck the side of a bridge and Mr. Tobias was thrown 
down a depth of about twenty feet, his face striking a 
huge rock, his jaw was fractured, three teeth knocked 
out, arid he received a number of other minor injuries on 
the body. He is a brother of Mrs, Qegrge Brennamaji, of 
this place," 
